Re: [SG] PBeM

If anyone is seriously considering PBEM I cannot recommend cyberboard
more
highly . It is the VERY best of the free utilities. It includes a card
system which serves for chit picking, a die roller an a system that
records
every move you make and the ability to send the full recorded turn to
your
opponent. Fine piece of software with lots of games converted to it
The homepage is at
http://cyberboard.brainiac.com/index.html
the following are two fine sites that include lots of interesting game
adaptions.
http://zappa.brainiac.com/yankeeap/yap/home.htm
http://pbem.brainiac.com/

hope this helps
Bob
PS I have already made a gamebox for BFG  and have a DSII box on the
way. I
see no problem with either FT or
SG.

 Bob
Hobby pages
www.angelfire.com/games4/chubbybob
----- Original Message -----
From: "NeoMatrix" <neomatrix@btinternet.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [SG] PBeM

>
>
> >Anyone worked out SG2-by-PBeM?
>
> Not yet - still waiting for my first game - the 15mm GZG bug has
bitten at
> the club (since I introduced them to FT last year)and enthusiasm
levels
are
> riding high, so I expect a game this month.
>
> I did think about it a good while back, and didn't come up with
anything
> solid, though I did tinker around with using FTMAP for mapping -
something
> I'll have to re-do as the prog I wrote to handle it was wiped in the
2nd
> great wipe of '01.
>
> The basic idea is that you draw several terrain tiles - much like the
TSS(?)
> terrain tiles - for hills in brown with different shades for each
height
> level.  Trees and buildings can be overlaid on said tiles to create
the
> battlefield map, with troops laid on last if visible.  You can produce
> excellent maps with FTMAP. I have redrawn the grunt gifs for anyone
who
> might want them.
>
> >If so, how?	And is anyone sufficiently eager to give it a try?
>
> I'd certainly like to lurk, or perhaps give it a try if no-one else
has/will
>
> > Something fairly small and straight forward,
>
> Simple is good, I can do simple. Recon in Force seems adequate ...
>
> >probably with prewritten orders instead of alternating just to speed
things
> up, I'd >think.
>
>
> I think alternating  would be less hassle to resolve, and ultimately
faster
> to play, as the command focus would be on the 'now' action with less
need
> for specuative orders.  Prewritten orders would remove the link
between
the
> ebb and flow which SG2 tries to simulate IMVHO :-]
>
> >(Caveat: beating me will earn you no bragging rights as it'll be my
> >first game since ECC...which was itself my first game).
>
> Only time will tell
>
> :D
>
> http://www.neomatrix.btinternet.co.uk/index.html
>
> Cloned from original Simpson DNA
> [FT30/99] GM
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